Physical and psychological spaces of an organization work in tandem to define the effectiveness of the people within it

It’s critical that young people start flexing their creative muscles in order to take on the world's most complex challenges.

Part of maintaining a thriving creative culture is giving people time and permission to play.

Design is all about learning from doing, that’s how we evolve to the best solution.

Build bridges of insight through empathy, see the world through the eyes of others, understand the world through their experiences, and feel the world through their emotions.

Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability.

Optimism requires confidence, and confidence is built on trust. And trust, as we know, flows in both directions.

It's not an 'either/or,' it's an 'and.' You can be serious and play.

We are at a critical point where rapid change is forcing us to look not just to new ways of solving problems but to new problems to solve.

Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products services, processes and even strategy

Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.

We often fear to say what is true. Our tongues are tied by the beliefs of the society.

The completion is always more difficult that the beginning

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.

You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.

My idea of 'roughing it' is when you have to have an extension for your electric blanket.

Ain't no man can outrun his fate.

Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.

The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.

Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.